Technology in Teaching

Student Self Accessment Project with OBE Element

Project Overview
Project Title	Student Self Accessment Project with OBE Element
Project Leader	Prof Barry Sautman & Prof Billy So
School / Dept	SHSS / SOSC & HUMA
Project Duration	Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
Project Description	The project further explored the use of the online materials developed in the preiovus projects by implmentating them in class together with the Personal Response System.
Project Outcome	The project put forth a model to enable collective teaching initiatives with the following outcomes: One thirds of the students were positive about the usage of the PRS in their class; Students generally found the learning resources more accessible and this contributes positively to their learning; Participating faculties acknowledged the project in assisting them to implement their teaching initiatives.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

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Developing the School-based Student Self Accessing Practice Test Sites with New OBA elements (Renewal)

Project Overview
Project Title	Developing the School-based Student Self Accessing Practice Test Sites with New OBA elements (Renewal)
Project Leader	Prof Barry Sautman
School / Dept	SHSS / SOSC
Project Duration	Jun 2010 - Jan 2012
Project Description	The project expanded the website, which was developed in a previous project, Student Self Accessing Practice Test Sites, by adding new assessment and learning tasks, developing assessment rubrics and providing supplementary learning materials.
Project Outcome	33 courses with around 4000 students in the School of Humanities and Social Science between Spring 2009 to Fall 2011 benefited from the Student Self Accessing Practice Test Sites (SSAPTS). Students reckoned the learning tools offered by the SSAPTS project useful to them especially in terms of helping them to track their learning progress, understanding the subject matter as well as familiarizing with the exam format. Positive feedback was received from the instructors participating in the project as well. Furthermore, two school-based TA training workshops were organized in Spring and Summer 2011 with a purpose to improve the quality of student learning.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Student Self Accessing Practice Test Sites

Project Overview
Project Title	Student Self Accessing Practice Test Sites
Project Leader	Prof Barry Sautman
School / Dept	SHSS / SOSC
Project Duration	Oct 2008 - Jan 2010
Project Description	The objectives of this project are: To facilitate student learning on a progressive basis, a self-accessing practice test site will be built to provide students with interactive study resources, including practice questions, sample essays, and discussion board. To improve student ability to apply declarative knowledge. In other words, we will present students with an opportunity to function with the knowledge they have or which they acquire related to China and the world. To help students learn how to successfully write high-quality essays through reading 'model' essays. The test site will enable instructors to track down student learning behavior and effectiveness by referring to the data of user counts and exam grades. It also seeks to facilitate instructors to improve their assessment techniques and address common learning questions by responding to the ongoing feedback from the site users.
Project Outcome	A Student Self Accessing Practice Test Site (SSAPTS) was built in 15 courses (4 courses in Spring 2009, 3 courses in Summer 2009 and 8 courses in Fall 2009) through LMES. The test site provided students with interactive study resources, including case-analysis type multiple-choice practice questions, annotated sample essays, writing handbooks, workshop videos and discussion board.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

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A Learning-by-Example Learning Module for Programming Courses

Project Overview
Project Title	A Learning-by-Example Learning Module for Programming Courses
Project Leader	Prof James Kwok
School / Dept	SBM / ISOM
Project Duration	Dec 2006 - May 2009
Project Description	The objectives of this project are: 1. To develop an online learning module of LMES for business school students to enable them to learn their first programming language in a more effective way by means of learning-by-example 2. To help students develop habits of peer-learning and self-directed learning 3. To enable and facilitate program sharing and peer-learning 4. To provide an online compiler (adopted from another CELT project) for students to evaluate their programs online.
Project Outcome	An online learning module (online forum with specified searching and polling function) incorporated with the ASP Editor were developed. A reference link gathering available online resources for learning programming language was also provided in the course websites. Project was implemented in ISMT223 (Fall 07-08) and ISMT535 (Spring 07-08). Students were encouraged to share their example codes via discussion forum and practice using the ASP Editor to learn VBScript in class and after class. One assignment using example code was designed in ISMT223. Group discussion (within group members) and project discussion (for all students) via online forum were designed in one assignment to promote peer learning in ISMT353. Students learnt how to learn programming languages through online tutorials and resources and how to document their sharable programs. They also learnt to understand the way of learning by examples through this module.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report: First \| Second \| Third \| Forth \| Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

Design and Development of LMES-Based Course Web Sites for IT Courses

Project Overview
Project Title	Design and Development of LMES-Based Course Web Sites for IT Courses
Project Leader	Prof James Kwok
School / Dept	SBM / ISMT
Project Duration	Oct 2005 - May 2008
Project Description	The project is closely related to Learning Management and Evaluation System (LMES). The major teaching and learning issues include understanding: feasibility and applicability of LMES for IT-related courses, such as programming courses experience of designing and developing IT-related course websites with LMES users’ experience of using LMES
Project Outcome	The ASP Editor (add-on module in LMES) was developed and specially designed as a learning tool for IT-related courses. Project was implemented in ISMT223 (Fall 06-07) and ISMT535 (Spring 06-07). The ASP Editor was used in class to demonstrate and compile VB programs. The results of the VB programs will be displayed immediately after the program execution. Students were encouraged to make use the tool to learn VB scripts in class and after class.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report: First \| Second \| Third \| Forth \| Fifth \| Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

Development of Lecture-Demonstration Interactive Approach for Engineering Dynamics Teaching/Learning Using Wireless MEMS-based Motion Sensors

Project Overview
Project Title	Development of Lecture-Demonstration Interactive Approach for Engineering Dynamics Teaching/Learning Using Wireless MEMS-based Motion Sensors
Project Leader	Prof Yi-Kuen Lee
School / Dept	SENG / MECH
Project Duration	Jul 2011 - Jan 2013
Project Description	This project developed both hand-on and virtual demonstration/experiment modules to supplement and assist classroom teaching using the advanced wireless MEMS-based motion sensors. The objectives were to stimulate students’ interest, promote interactive learning environment and effectively transfer knowledge through the combine lecture-demonstration teaching approach.
Project Outcome	The project developed a set of experiment kits to supplement and assist classroom teaching of the Engineering Dynamics courses (MECH103 / MECH2030)
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Development of Lecture-Demonstration Interactive Approach for Solid Mechanics Teaching/Learning

Project Overview
Project Title	Development of Lecture-Demonstration Interactive Approach for Solid Mechanics Teaching/Learning
Project Leader	Prof Wenjing Ye
School / Dept	SENG / MECH
Project Duration	Mar 2011 - Jun 2013
Project Description	This project developed hand-on and virtual demonstration/experiment modules to supplement teaching and learning activities of Solid Mechanics. Through these modules, it aimed to stimulate students' interest, promote interactive learning environment and effectively transfer knowledge. Specifically, demonstrating tools were developed to illustrate deformation of some basic structure elements, and commercial FEM softwares was employed to create virtual experiments for the demonstration of physical experiments in engineering mechanics computation and design.
Project Outcome	Developed a series of virtual demonstration modules to illustrate the relationship between the applied loading, deformation of the structure elements and the stress developed inside the structures. These modules include 3D illustrators, videos and virtual experiments produced using the commercial software ABAQUS. In parallel with the development of virutal teaching modules, three sets of devices have been designed for experiments on axially loaded bar, torsional shaft and bending beam. Multiple units of each device have been manufactured, enabling in-class testing.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Online Virtual Soil Lab

Project Overview
Project Title	Online Virtual Soil Lab
Project Leader	Prof Yu Hsing Wang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Nov 2009 - Jan 2012
Project Description	To facilitate student learning in understanding the complicated but important basic concepts of soil behavior in a large-class setting, this projec tbuilt an online virtual soil lab to consolidate students’ knowledge through exploring soil behavior, animated critical-state modeling, videos of soil experiments and a series of self-assessed quizzes in different topics and levels.
Project Outcome	An online virtual soil lab, inlcuding animated contents, videos and self-tests, was developed.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

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Adaption of Podcasting Techniques for a Postgraduate Computer Science Course

Project Overview
Project Title	Adaption of Podcasting Techniques for a Postgraduate Computer Science Course
Project Leader	Prof David Rossiter
School / Dept	SENG / CSE
Project Duration	Feb 2007 - Dec 2007
Project Description	The project provided students (who often cannot attend lectures for legitimate reasons) access to the lecture material via a podcast.
Project Outcome	A new feature of the GONG system was developed and able to support import of any podcast and export any voice board in the system as a podcast. An add-on podcasting feature of GONG system was designed in Java environment which was applicable to all platforms. RSS subscription function was added. Any audio recordings can be simultaneously published as a podcast. Newly added or edited messages in the Gong voice board will automatically reflected in the Gong podcast by any podcast reading system. The system was implemented in a course.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report: First \| Second \| Final Report
Adaptation	Adaptation from Lecture POD casting: enhancing course materials through recorded MP3 audio of lectures for portable MP3 players

Bioinformatics in Bioengineering: Direct Experience with Interactive Learning

Project Overview
Project Title	Bioinformatics in Bioengineering: Direct Experience with Interactive Learning
Project Leader	Prof Kathy Luo
School / Dept	SENG / CENG
Project Duration	Dec 2006 - May 2008
Project Description	The objective of this project was to refined and re-design the software and website developed in a previous project for students in bioengineering.
Project Outcome	Course materials of Bioinformatics were refined. Add-on curriculum, step-by-step instructions and teaching materials on Bioinformatics were developed. Teaching materials and step-by-step instructions on Bioinformatics were uploaded to the learning management system for students’ self-practice. Project was implemented in a course.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report: First \| Second \| Third \| Final Report
Adaptation	Adaptation from Understanding Bioinformatics: Direct Experience with Interactive Learning

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